VIA vs Intel

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This should be pretty entertaining stuff. VIA Technologies is about to release a chipset for motherboards that will be compatible with Intel CPUs. Apparently Intel isnt very happy with it though and they are threatening the legal stuff. Most likely because the VIA chip will support SDRAM.

The launch will see Via first out of the gate with full production of a Pentium 4 chipset that supports low-cost PC-133 SDRAM memory. Also pushing similar products through are Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS), which is to begin volume production of the 645 chipset next month, and Acer Labs, which will launch its M1761 by the end of the year.

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